My kayak has been stolen from my car :(( It was stolen around 7-10pm on Thursday, January 3 from the 1100 block of Pacific Street in Vancouver. It's a mango deck Nimbus Telkwa. I'm totally stunned - somehow they got through the lock and straps on a very busy main road in Vancouver. They busted up one side of my roof rack doing it too! Who the hell steals a kayak anyway. I'm super bummed - screw 2013 already.

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Small amount of damage to the forward bow from collision with a garage door.
Last seen at 1175 Pacific Street in Vancouver BC.
Please let me know if you see this boat!
If you see a kayak matching this description and serial numbers, please call the cops and report it. If they were stealthy enough to grab it from my car, I'm pretty skeptical of my chances of getting it back. I'm going to put up some posters and hope for a phone call from the police. Hope this isn't the last post...

We spent a solid August long weekend at Strathcona's Buttle Lake Campsite and I decided to go play on the water. It's been quite a while since I was out, but it felt good to visit somewhere new and see some pretty stunning scenery. This lake is incredibly shallow along the shore and features many marine campgrounds marked with sticks. You can see that the whole area was flooded by the nearby dam. Tree stumps erupt out of the water with the silty lake bottom mere feet below. Along the shore, the winds were pretty light, but out in the middle of the channel, it was ocean conditions with a North to South flow of 10-15 knots. I paddled around for a couple hours while my friends had a siesta from the summer heatwave that had come to the central island. When I landed, I wondered what was in the other direction... guess I'll have to visit again soon.

In kayaking related news, I just read that Paula finally got to do her dream vacation of tackling Deer River - Congrats Paula and I hope we can catch up over coffee some weekend to chat about the trip. You can find the updates here: Paula on the Deer River - Kayakyak

A bright, sunny day in Vancouver brought me down to the beach. I've been pretty lax in my duties in Kayaking, but the weather's finally cleared up and the wind off the strait has calmed down. I launched at sunset beach and paddled out into English bay with some light chop near Jericho beach. I was feeling pretty adventurous so I decided to also go down to the end of false creek as well to the science center. Man, it's good to be back on the water again.

This blog contains my logs for time out on the water and inside news on events that I'm following. Whether it's local paddling, traveling or yachting, you'll find the stories here! I live in Victoria, British Columbia. It's on the south coast of Vancouver Island in Canada. I paddle an 18'3", Orange decked Nimbus Telkwa as my regular kayak. See you on the blue stuff!